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After 17 weeks of highly emotional at times explosive courtroom developments, a racially mixed jury of seven women and five men prepared to deliberate the fate of Losi, 86 Latino youth charged with murder, assault with intent to commit murder and burglary. 1/7 defendant remains at large. The

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trial itself began July 2nd of this year, but long before that time losi it had become a cause celebre. Young young political activists who along with families of the defendants, packed the San Francisco courtroom faithfully. Each of the 58 trial days outside the courtroom, many demonstrations

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were held on behalf of Losi 80 proclaiming their innocence and denouncing what was called a racist legal system and police repression in the Latino community. Prosecutor Thomas Norman set out to prove that the defendants were collectively responsible for the death of San Francisco policeman Joseph Broadneck.

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Broadneck was fatally shot in the chest May 1st 1969 as he and his partner, Paul McGauran, scuffled with a group of burglary suspects on Alvarado Street. McGauran was the prosecution's chief witness, as well as the prime target for a relentless defense effort to prove that it

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was he McGauran who accidentally shot his partner after provoking the defendants into a fight by drawing his gun and calling them greasers. Charles Gary and three fellow defense attorneys hammered away at McGauran in an attempt to reveal to the jury a quick temper, violent nature, racial

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prejudice, low moral character on a heavy reliance upon tranquilizers. And now, after 60 defense and prosecution witnesses, Judge Lawrence Manner, himself a frequent verbal target for the defense team, summed up his final instructions to the jury for 2.5 hours. Judge manner read into the record a

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rigid and complex legal definition of 1st and 2nd degree murder, assault and burglary, as well as the definition of aiding and abetting such crimes. The panel was told to consider each defendant separately on each of the three counts and under what circumstances. Murder one could be

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reduced to second degree or even manslaughter and, of course, not guilty. Attorney Gary objected on successfully to this inclusion of lesser degrees, claiming it gives the jury and opportunity to compromise what would otherwise be a not guilty verdict. All verdict must be unanimous. Yet the jury

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could conceivably reach a decision on only one or two defendants. Should there be one arm or first degree murder convictions? A separate penalty trial will be held for those concerns. At 10 minutes after 11 a.m. The jury retired from the courtroom, most of them with suitcases

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and overnight bags, an indication that the agonizing wait for Losi. It would be a long one. At least 24 hours, probably more. Mike Lee Eyewitness News, San Francisco